Curry-comb rack



(No Model.)

A. B. FRIEDMANN.

CURRY 00MB RACK.

.No. 428,085. Patented May 20, 1890.

QR HM c on e a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN B. FRIEDMANN, OF MINNESOTA LAKE, MINNESOTA.

CURRY-COMB RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,085, dated May 20, 1890.

Application filed February 15, 1890. Serial No. 340,615. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown thatI, ALVIN B. FRIEDMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minnesota Lake, in the county of Faribault and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Curry-Oomb Rack, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a support adapted to receive the handles of curry-combs, brushes, and other articles provided with handles, the ends of which terminate in enlarged heads; and among the objects in view are to provide such a support that is readily attached to the under surfaces of shelves or other supports or to two parallel outwardly-projecting cleats, said attachment being adapted to receive and support a series of such articles as mentioned above, and in such a manner as to permit of a ready withdrawal of the same for the purpose of inspection, sale, or use.

With these general objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a per spective of the under portion of a shelf provided with an attachment constructed in ac cordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, a currycomb having its handle engaged thereby.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both the figures of the drawings.

The attachment comprises two upper transverse bars 1, slightly flared and perforated at their centers for the reception of screws. From each end of each of the bars 1 there depends an inwardly-disposed short bar 3, thus forming between each pair of bars 3 a contracted space 4. The bars 3 of each of the bars 1 are connected to the companion bar 3 of the opposite bar 1 by means of longitudinal bars 5. This completes the attachment, and for the purpose of convenience and cheapnessthe entire'deviceis integrally cast, though it will be apparent that I may construct a device of wire bent to the form indicated.

6 represents a shelf, or, as before stated, any

other suitable and convenient support, and the attachmentis secured thereto upon its under side by a pair of screws 7, inserted up-' ward] y through the screw-openings 2 and into the shelf.

8 represents a curry-comb, and 9 the handle thereof, which, as is usual, terminates at its upper endin a head 10, largerin diameter than the handle. By holding the comb in a vertical position and passing the head laterally in the space i it will be seen that by reason of the converging bars 5 said bars will take under head, and thus support the comb in a vertical suspended position.

It is the habit to provide dust-brushes and other articles with handles having heads, and it will be apparent that the attachment is as well adapted for the support of the same as for curry-combs, though it is especially designed forthe support of the latter. It is also apparent that the length of the support may be decreased, so that it is merely adapted for the support of one or more articles as used in a stable; or, as shown, the device may be of such a length as to accommodate a number of such articles, whereby they are exhibited for sale in stores, and may be readily withdrawn or entered at either end of the attachment.

\Vhat I claim is The herein-described support for the purpose specified, the same consisting of a pair of transverse bars having screw receiving openings, and inwardly-tending depending bars 3, projecting from the ends of the transverse bars, the inwardly-tending bars of one of the transverse bars being connected to the similar bars of the opposite transverse bar by the parallel bars 5, and the whole cast or formed in a single integral piece, subs-tantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

ALVIN B. FRIEDMANN.

\Vitnesses:

J osEPH OsDoBA, ANDREW PETROP. 

